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Needs are things you must have for a satisfactory life

• Needs: The things you must have for a satisfactory life.  Merriam Webster
• Need: A thing that is wanted or required.  Oxford Dictionary
• Self-knowledge,  Self-awareness,    Ask for what you want

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We all have deep human needs and it’s important to understand what they are

• You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want. Deborah Day

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Our emotional needs are no less important than physical ones

• But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren’t met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death – neurosis and psychosis. Leo F. Buscaglia
• Emotions

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We have a need to grow and fulfil our potential

• Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities. Rollo May
• Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self- actualization. It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfilment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming. Abraham Maslow
• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Oprah Winfrey
• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self-actualization and the love for the highest values. Abraham Maslow
• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. Ben Stein
• All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. Les Brown
• Growth,  Potential

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We have a need to belong

• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of not belonging. Mother Teresa

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We have a need to be understood

• The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Ralph G. Nichols
• Understanding

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We have a need for friendship

• A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke
• Your friend is your needs answered. Khalil Gibran
• One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness. William E. Holler
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We have a need for a sense of worth

• The individual’s most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. Eric Hoffer
• Self-worth

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We have a need for something to be enthusiastic about

• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
• Enthusiasm,  Purpose

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We have a need for nourishment of the soul

• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Billy Graham
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir
• The soul

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We have a need for balance and variety

• We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other.  We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence.  We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.  Andy Rooney
• Balance,  Variety

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We have a need for experience and adventure

• My needs are to experience some experience everyday. Yancey Grantham
• Adventure is a need. Toba Beta
• The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings. Bertrand Russell
• Experience,  Adventure

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We have a need for fun and laughter

• All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. August Wilson
• Human beings need to have fun. We need to play, and most importantly, we need to laugh.  Norman Cousin
• Fun,  Laughter

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Here is a list of some more needs that we humans have

• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell
• Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. Abdul Kalam
• A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Nikos Kazantzakis
• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. William Glasser
• Everybody needs positive messages, and no living creature possessing a personality can escape this fact any more than a sentient being living in a human body can deny that body’s need for physical food. Paul Richards
• People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. Ani Difranco
• Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. Le Corbusier
• After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. Philip Pullman
• They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett

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Most of all, we have a need to love and be loved

• It would not occur to anyone to question the statement that we “need” iodine or vitamin C. I remind you that the evidence that we “need” love is of exactly the same type. Abraham Maslow
• Cultivating positive relationships is essential to overall psychological wealth. Although people differ in their need for social relationships, and in the types of social relationships they most enjoy, we all need to receive and give social support. We all need to be loved and to love others. Ed Diener & Robert Biswas- Diener
• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. Margaret Mead
• All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner. John Gray
• How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. Sylvia Plath
• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. Leo Buscaglia
• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. Miles Franklin
• Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need. Margaret Mead
• Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. Hector Bianciotti
• When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.
• Love

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Paradoxically, however, too much “needing” can get in the way of real love

• What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. Eckhart Tolle
• People need each other and think it is love. There’s no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves. Lester Levensen
• I finally understand, the only time to be in a relationship is when I don’t ‘need’ to be in a relationship to feel whole. Jilly Robertson
• Eliminate dependency. I may want but I do not need. I am the sunshine of my life and having you in it makes it even brighter. Wayne Dyer
• People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need. Gary Chapman

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To overcome excessive “neediness”, we need to learn to love and accept ourselves

• We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. John Lennon
• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh
• When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me. Dr Steve Maraboli
• Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu

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Men and women sometimes have different needs in relationships

• Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed. Rita Mae Brown
• Men primarily need trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement. Women primarily need caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance.  John Gray

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If you’re ever upset, think about what need is not being met

• If we are feeling upset, think about what need of ours is not being met, and what we could do to meet it, instead of thinking about what’s wrong with others or ourselves. Gary Baran

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Don’t be shy to share your needs with others and ask for what you need

• Don’t assume that someone will automatically know what you need. You have to tell them. Be specific, clear, honest and respectful.  Joyce Marter
• You don’t know until you ask. More often than not, you get what you ask for. Danielle LaPorte
• If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts
• Many things are lost for want of asking. George Herbert
• When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed. Richard Carlson
• Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. Barbara De Angelis
• Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. Miguel Ruiz
• Find the courage to express what you really want.
• Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! Maya Angelou
• Ask for what you want

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Tune into other people’s needs

• Before agreeing or disagreeing with anyone’s opinions, try to tune in to what the person is feeling and needing. Gary Baran

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Realise that wealth and possessions alone cannot meet your deepest needs as a human being

• The accumulation of material possessions, which I refer to by the technical term of “stuff,” doesn’t feed the soul. It doesn’t matter how much stuff you accumulate; it won’t satisfy your spiritual nature. Stuff is like junk food to the soul, and just as junk food won’t nurture your body, neither will accumulating more stuff. Brad Swift
• Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. Henrik Ibsen
• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau
• Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night’s sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend. Zig Ziglar
• No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. Henry Wheeler Shaw
• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.  Richard M. DeVos
• No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Don’t think you can fill an emptiness in your heart with money   Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Wealth,  Materialism

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When you want something that can never satisfy you, you can never get enough of it…

• There’s never enough of the stuff you can’t get enough of. Patrick H.T. Doyle
• You cannot get enough of what you don’t need, because what you don’t need won’t satisfy you.
• You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. Eric Hoffer
• Wanting is something “having” cannot cure. Joe Fortenberry
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… and that is when greed raises its head

• Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.  Erich Fromm
• Greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. Oxford Dictionary
• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. Gandhi
• There is never enough in the world to satisfy the dissatisfied heart. Christina Feldman
• One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds.  Don Robinson
• Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude. Seneca
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Scale down your needs for material things by eliminating needless wants

• You can do less and live more. You don’t need more stuff. Release your cravings for materialism. It will lead to less debt, less work and less stress. Henri Junttila
• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. Edwin Way Teale
• Money doesn’t have to enslave you. How much money do you really need? How about having enough to do what you want, when you want to do it? Why would anyone need more than that? Henri Junttila
• We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. Donald Horban
• Need nothing and then see what happens. Gangaji
• If we reduce our needs and learn to be content with little, we need to work little to survive. Leo Babauta
• Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. William Howard Stein
• He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

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Not only will this make you happier, but paradoxically, it will make you wealthier…

• Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it. Wayne Dyer
• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. Seneca
• He who knows he has enough is rich. Lao Tzu
• Happiness,  Wealth

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… whereas constantly wanting and needing more makes you poor and dissatisfied

• It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
• Who covets more, is evermore a slave. Robert Herrick
• Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. Eric Hoffer
• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates

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Realise that what you want and what you need aren’t the same

• You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity. Albert Ellis
• The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose.  It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• What I want is what I’ve not got but what I need is all around me. Dave Matthews
• Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one’s higher powers. Kenneth Smith
• What you need and what you want aren’t the same things. Cherise Sinclair
• You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. Mick Jagger

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Contentment comes from wanting what you need…

• Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want. Wayne Gerard Trotman
• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. Vernon Howard
• My belief is that to have no wants is divine. Socrates
• Those who want much, are always much in need. Horace
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… and prosperity comes from wanting what you have

• Well, if you can’t have what you want, you could try to want what you have. Gillian Shields
• Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F. Abert
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
• The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Eric Fromm
• When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
• There are two ways you can be rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.
• It is better to want what you have than to have what you want. Proverb
• Contentment,  Prosperity

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Realise, you need much less than you think you need to be happy

• You need much less than you think you need to be happy, and you usually have a lot more than you think you have. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Very little is needed for a happy life. Marcus Aurelius
• Need does not exist. I need nothing to be happy. Happiness is a state of mind. Neale Donald Walsch
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Realise you’ve got everything you need right here, and everything you need is enough

• Everything I need is already within me. Abraham-Hicks
• It is a tremendous fact that all you need is already within you. Wallace D. Wattles
• You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life. Carlos Castaneda
• Look inside yourself: everyting that you want, you are already that. Rumi
• Your treasure is deep within you: it holds all you need. Hui-Hai
• Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment. M J Ryan
• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy
• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. Wayne Dyer
• Everything I need now is here. Wayne Dyer
• We’ve got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough. Jack Johnson
• All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment. Byron Katie
• You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.  Wayne Dyer
• What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don’t need. George Alexiou
• When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu

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• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore
• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. Saint Teresa of Avila
• Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. Lawrence Block
• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most. Wayne Dyer
• Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. Denis Waitley
• Needing leads to bleeding–to almost all inevitable suffering. Albert Ellis
• Humans need beauty the way plants need sunlight. We wither and wilt without it. Scott McNealy
• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. William Glasser
• Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  Jane Howard
• Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self- actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives. Lorii Myers
• When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. Jessica Lange

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Tony Robbins‘ list of 6 needs

• Certainty – the need to be safe and comfortable
• Variety – the need for physical and mental stimulation
• Significance – the need to feel special and worthy of attention
• Love & Connection – the need to be loved and connected to others
• Growth – the need to develop and expand
• Contribution – the need to contribute beyond yourself

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

• Physiological needs
• Security
• Social needs
• Esteem
• Self-actualisation

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16 human needs developed by Steven Reiss, Ph.D.

• Acceptance
• Curiosity
• Eating
• Family
• Honor
• Idealism
• Independence
• Order
• Physical activity
• Power
• Romance
• Saving
• Social contact
• Status
• Tranquility
• Vengeance

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Tim Kasser’s list of needs

• Safety, security, and sustenance
• Competence, efficacy, and self esteem – a feeling that we are capable of doing what we set but to do and of obtaining the things we value.
• Connectedness
• Autonomy and authenticity – the need to express ourselves and follow our own interests; to have ownership of our behaviour; to feel self-directed and free.
• Source: The High Price of Materialism – Tim Kasser

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• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch
• Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. John C. Maxwell
• When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health. If everything is simply jake, then you’re frightened of death.  Marilyn Monroe
• All I want is a little more than I’ll ever get. Ashleigh Brilliant
• All I want is more and more and more. Is that asking too much?  Ashleigh Brilliant

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